Spanish Culture Immersion & Adventure
Add an Expedition to your Spanish Immersion Program
This program consists of one to three weeks of a Spanish cultural immersion, followed by 5 days of trekking & kayaking throughout the jungle.
Available dates for the expedition:
You can choose 1 to 3 weeks of Spanish immersion before the following expedition dates.Starting dates
For individuals, you may start- Any Monday from June 7th to August 16th.
- Easter & Christmas holidays
You can form your own group any time of the year with a minimum of 4 people.
2 week program
One week
'Cultural Immersion'
+
a five day expedition
$ 1090 US /person
14 170 pesos
3 week program
Two week
'Cultural Immersion'
+
a five day expedition
$ 1590 US /person
20 670 pesos
4 week program
Three week
'Cultural Immersion'
+
a five day expedition
$ 1990 US /person
25 870 pesos
Expedition
Five Day Tour Through the Lacandon Jungle
Kayaking and Rafting
*Leave from and return to San Cristóbal
Included:
- Entrance fees
- Transportaton
- Meals indicated
- Camping equipment
- River equipment
- First-aid kit
- Insurance
- Specialized guide
Résumé:
One night's stay in a tent at the river's edge at Ixcan campsite
+
3 nights' stay at the Lacanja River campsite
Kayak trip on the Lacantum River
Raft trip on the Lacanja River
Entrance fees to visit Tenam Puente, Yaxchilan, Bonampak, and Palenque
Entrance fees for the Lagos de Montebello and Palenque national parks and Misolha and Agua Azul waterfalls
Motorboat transport to visit Yaxchilan
Expedition details
Visit the Biosphere Reserve with the most biodiversity in Mexico, “Montes Azules”.
Traverse the Reserve in kayaks on the Lacantum River.
Raft down the Lacanja River and get to know the amazing archaelogical sites of Tenam Puente, Yaxchilan, Bonampak and Palenque.
Day 1
We leave early from San Cristobal de las Casas to visit Tenam Puente archaelogical site and Lagos de Montebello. After that, we travel to the Ixcan River in the Lacandon jungle to embark in kayaks, rowing 1 hour to arrive at the Ixcan campsite, where we'll sleep in the jungle in tents on the river's edge.
Lunch and dinner provided.
Day 2
We start rowing at 10 am on the Lacantum River and at a certain point, we go into the jungle for 2 hours to visit an small archaelogical site that still has no name and then have lunch surrounded by lush jungle vegetation. We'll finish the afternoon in the kayaks and then arrive at the Chajul/Loma Bonita community where we'll meet up with the van once more. After that, we'll drive about two and a half hours towards the Lacanja Chansayab community to sleep at the Rio Lacanja campsite.
Breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner provided.
Day 3
We get an early start to the day heading to the community of Chol de Frontera Corozal where we'll take a motorboat to navigate the Usumacinta River, the river with the strongest currents in Mexico. Then we arrive at the lost city of Yaxchilan, one of the most amazing archaelogical sites in Chiapas whose temples rise up from the middle of the the jungle. We'll go back to the Lacanja Campsite where we'll go down an interpretive path to better understand the importance of the perennial jungle. We'll sleep at the Lacanja River Campsite.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided.
Day 4
In the morning, we'll visit the ruins of Bonampak, which in the Mayan langage means Painted Walls. It is famous for its painted murals which are the most important and best preserved of the classical Mayan style. After that, we go back to the campsite to start the way in the raft on the Lacanja River. The first part of the river is a sequence of waterfalls that lasts about one hour. There are smalls waterfalls and some big ones (class III - up to 2.5 meters high). After that, we row another hour until we arrive at the Lacanja archaelogical site which is about 15 minutes walking distance from the shore of theriver. Afterwards, we visit the Moctuniha waterfalls for a swim andlunch. We come back to the campsite through the jungle, we sleepanother night at the Lacanja campsite.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided.
Day 5
We go to the archaelogical site of Palenque early where we visit one of the most important Mayan cities. Afterwards, we return to San Cristobal de Las Casas and on the way we visit two waterfalls: Misolha and Agua Azul.
End of the trip.
Breakfast provided.